Salary: £? - ? per year Requirements:

Active UK DV clearance is essential.
Strong commercial experience as a SQL Server DBA.
Extensive experience administering Microsoft SQL Server in enterprise environments.
Strong knowledge of backup and recovery strategies and processes.
Proven experience in SQL Server performance tuning and optimisation.
Experience with High Availability and Disaster Recovery technologies and methodologies.
Strong T-SQL development and scripting skills.
Good PowerShell scripting and automation experience.
Experience with database monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting.
Strong understanding of database security, permissions and access controls.
Experience providing operational or production support in a complex IT environment.
Ability to diagnose and resolve complex database incidents and performance issues.
Desirable: Experience in Defence, Government or other highly secure environments.
Desirable: Experience automating DBA and security processes.
Desirable: Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical SQL Server environments.
Desirable: Knowledge of infrastructure, networking and application dependencies in enterprise environments.
Desirable: Experience with SQL Server clustering, Always On Availability Groups or similar HA technologies.
Desirable: Familiarity with ITIL-based operational support and change management processes.

Responsibilities:

Provide day-to-day SQL Server DBA and operational support across production and non-production environments.
Perform database administration, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
Manage backup and recovery, including backup strategies, restores and recovery testing.
Monitor and optimise SQL Server performance, identify bottlenecks and implement tuning improvements.
Support and maintain High Availability (HA) solutions and database resilience.
Contribute to Disaster Recovery (DR) planning, testing and implementation.
Implement and maintain database security controls, access management and security automation.
Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting and health-check processes.
Troubleshoot database incidents and provide technical resolution within agreed SLAs.
Develop and maintain T-SQL scripts for administration, automation, reporting and troubleshooting.
Use PowerShell to automate database administration and operational tasks.
Support patching, upgrades, configuration changes and database maintenance activities.
Produce and maintain technical documentation, procedures and operational runbooks.
Work closely with infrastructure, application and security teams to ensure reliable and secure database services.

Technologies:

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We are seeking an experienced SQL Database Administrator to provide operational support and administration across a secure, business-critical SQL Server environment. This hands-on role focuses on the availability, performance, security, backup and recovery of SQL Server databases in a highly secure Defence environment. The position is onsite in Basingstoke, offered on a contract basis outside IR35, at a rate of £550 to £600 per day.

last updated 43 week of 2026

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